Applications Invited for Lisle International Global Seed Grants

About the Organization

We serve a worldwide neighborhood of change-makers, offering help for intercultural experiences via grants and our community of Lisle members.

Lisle International promotes grassroots instructional initiatives which purposefully foster intercultural understanding and management, tolerance, youth engagement and improvement of improved relations amongst communities in battle.

Through its Global Seed Fund, Lisle helps small-scale intercultural packages and tasks which bridge class, caste, ethnic, non secular and gender variations in communities. The Fund helps initiatives within the United States and world wide.

Lisle advocates for a simply social order the place people of all backgrounds take part totally. It believes in understanding various views whereas balancing idealism with practicality. Lisle goals to develop emotional maturity, social consciousness, and cultural appreciation amongst future international leaders.

About the Grant

Do you may have a mission thought that can convey individuals of various backgrounds collectively for shared studying? Lisle International gives Global Seed Grants to help modern tasks which advance intercultural understanding via shared experiences, with the aim of making a extra simply social order. Projects could search to bridge quite a lot of neighborhood divides, together with ethnic, cultural, non secular, racial or gender views, anyplace on this planet.

Lisle International was an early pioneer in intercultural training programming, starting with US tasks in 1936 and increasing internationally in 1952.  Since 2004, Lisle has targeted on offering small “seed grants” to help packages fostering intercultural understanding.

Grants of $500 to $5,000 can be found to modern tasks that meet the eligibility standards. Lisle awards between three and eight grants annually to tasks within the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa.

Eligibility

The Lisle Global Seed Grants help tasks that additional the Lisle mission and promote intercultural communication and shared studying. It is important candidates clarify how a proposed mission promotes intercultural engagement and communication as a core aim achieved via intentional program parts. Lisle solely funds tasks that promote intercultural understanding and convey individuals of various backgrounds collectively to share and study from each other.

• Lisle prefers funding organizations over people; people making use of ought to affiliate with a company for mission implementation.
• Focus on new tasks with progress potential, relatively than ongoing or well-funded packages, aligning with the “seed grant” spirit.
• Prefers to be a major donor for well-defined intercultural tasks by small and younger organizations.
• Projects worldwide are eligible; US nonprofit standing (501c3) not required, however native organizational certification is welcomed.

Successful tasks are most frequently:

• Innovative and collaborative
• Centralize intercultural interplay within the mission
• Working in direction of resolving conflicts
• Promoting neighborhood constructing

How to Apply

Opens April 1 – Closes July 31, 2025

Phase One: Request to Apply (RTA) portal opens, permitting candidates to start their functions on-line. Notifications of RTA acceptance shall be despatched throughout this era.

Preview the Request to Apply & Grant Application

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